Voting abroad impossible: PM

Prime Minister Hun Sen has dismissed calls to allow Cambodians living abroad to vote in the next election, claiming it would be impossible under the Kingdom’s proportional representative electoral system. But a vast string of other countries – including Indonesia and several European nations – operate under the proportional representative system yet extend the right to vote to their citizens abroad.

Speaking in Rancho Mirage in California on Monday, Prime Minister Hun Sen told a group of Cambodian-American supporters not to believe statements from the opposition CNRP. “Cambodians living abroad should stop believing them. If we used the electoral system of the US, we could consider it, but in the proportional system in Cambodia … it is a problem,” he said, in audio footage provided by local news outlet Thmey Thmey.

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